暗昧
àn mèi
Pinyin
Definition
暗昧
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- obscure
- remaining unenlightened
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
名重识暗
- 1 of great reputation but shallow in knowledge (idiom)
愚昧无知
- 1 stupid and ignorant (idiom)
拾金不昧
- 1 to pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner
明人不做暗事
- 1 The honest person does nothing underhand (idiom).
- 2 fig. Do what you want to do openly and without dissimulation.
明修栈道,暗渡陈仓
- 1 lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wèi Hé] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liú Bāng] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ] of Chu)
- 2 fig. to feign one thing while doing another
- 3 to cheat under cover of a diversion